G. Mark Phillips is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Charleston where his litigation practice focuses on the defense of product liability matters. A member of the South Carolina Bar and the Florida Bar, Mr. Phillips has tried a significant number of product, construction, and general liability cases in South Carolina and in other venues across the United States during more than 20 years of practice. Mr. Phillips is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Additionally, Mr. Phillips is a recent past president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association.

Mr. Phillips has tried asbestos personal injury cases to verdict in Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington state, and West Virginia, and has participated in asbestos personal injury trials in Alabama, California, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He has coordinated and handled the defense of thousands of asbestos personal injury cases in Florida and Tennessee. Several of his recent asbestos personal injury trials ended with defense verdicts on March 1, 2006, May 19, 2005, Jan. 27, 2005, Aug. 20, 2003, Nov. 1, 2002, and Oct. 18, 2001. The March 1, 2006 and May 19, 2005 defense verdicts came in Madison County, Ill. Mr. Phillips has served as national defense counsel for an asbestos product supplier in property damage cases that included a significant national class action of U.S. colleges and universities.

Since 1996, Mark Phillips has handled the defense of more than 200 synthetic stucco (Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems - EIFS) cases for South Carolina homebuilders. This experience in moisture intrusion litigation has given Mr. Phillips continuous access to local and national experts on the causes of construction defects and the costs of remediation. Mr. Phillips handled the first jury trial of a South Carolina EIFS case in May 2000. More recently, he obtained a defense verdict for a homebuilder in a South Carolina synthetic stucco case on April 30, 2002. Having handled numerous arbitrations, mediations, and depositions, including those of synthetic stucco manufacturers, Mr. Phillips has a keen understanding of the causes and effects of moisture intrusion in buildings. Through extensive experience in asbestos litigation, Mr. Phillips has developed a national network of experts in the fields of industrial hygiene and medicine, many of whom are expected to offer essential understanding and testimony in the defense of mold litigation.

Mr. Phillips is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and the Florida Supreme Court. (Mr. Phillips is a member of the American Bar Association, the Charleston County Bar Association, and the Defense Research Institute.)

Actively involved in the life of the Charleston community, Mr. Phillips' current affiliations include his service as chairman of the board and past president of the Coastal Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts of America; board of directors, Kanuga Conferences, Inc.; membership on the development board of the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community; past vestryman and senior warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church; and trustee, The Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of South Carolina.

Mr. Phillips earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1986. After studying at St. John's College of Oxford University in Oxford, England, Mr. Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of the South in 1983.